Cheating: Trying to get credit for your work using dishonest methods. This includes:

• Using paid services like term paper mills or websites that provide real-time answers.
• Sharing or receiving information without the instructor’s permission, giving someone an unfair advantage.
• Communicating with classmates during a quiz or exam without permission.
• Copying from another student’s quiz or exam, or letting someone copy from yours.
• Letting someone else take a quiz or exam for you.
• Using unauthorized materials like textbooks, notes, or electronic devices during exams or assignments.
• Collaborating without permission, like sharing information through devices during an exam.
• Using someone else’s data for assignments without permission.
• Altering graded work and requesting a re-grade.
• Discussing test answers with students who haven’t taken it yet.
• Using instructor-only editions of textbooks.
• Making or distributing copies of tests or course materials without permission.
• Using cheat sheets or other prohibited aids during tests.
• Collaborating on assignments without the instructor’s permission.
• Helping another student commit any of these actions.

Plagiarism: Presenting someone else’s words, ideas, or work as your own. This includes:

• Stealing and presenting another person’s work as your own.
• Submitting material written by someone else or from another source without proper citation.
• Submitting material edited by someone else that changes your original voice or ideas.
• Translating someone else’s work and presenting it as your own.
• Using someone else’s data in your assignments without permission.

Fabrication: Making up or altering information in an academic exercise. This includes:

• Creating or changing data to support your research.
• Presenting results from work that was never actually done.
• Citing sources you didn’t actually use.
• Altering official records or documents.

Fraud: Intentionally making untrue statements or deceiving others. This includes:

• Giving false excuses for absences or late assignments.
• Checking in or out of a lab or resource center dishonestly.
• Using another student’s ID card for classes or resources.
• Misrepresenting the content of source material or data.

Multiple Submissions: Resubmitting work that has already received credit. This includes:

• Reusing work from a previous course without the current instructor’s consent.
• Submitting similar work in multiple courses without consent from all instructors.
• Reusing work from a previous section of the same course without consent.

Unauthorized use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): Using artificial intelligence tools without permission. This includes:

• Using AI to solve problems, draft texts, or create multimedia without authorization.

Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: Helping someone else commit an act of academic dishonesty. This includes:

• Taking a quiz or exam for someone else.
• Allowing someone to copy your work.
• Posing as another student in a class.
• Providing materials or information that could help someone else cheat.
• Uploading instructor-created materials to public websites or homework help sites.
• Distributing or using class notes or recordings without permission.